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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 06, 2010
Filed:
Dec. 14, 2000
Mark S. Young, Mountain View, CA (US);
Mark S. Young, Mountain View, CA (US);
F5 Networks, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);
Abstract
Disclosed is a method and apparatus for crossbar arbitration. In one embodiment, the crossbar arbitration includes a memory, a plurality of functional units that transfer data to and from the memory, a crossbar unit that provides a data path from each unit to the memory, and an arbitration unit that monitors data traffic generated by each functional unit through the crossbar unit and assigns a priority to each functional unit based on the data traffic. In another embodiment, the crossbar arbitration includes a method for data transfer arbitration including monitoring data transfers for a plurality of devices, and assigning a priority to each device corresponding to the amount of data transfers generated by the device.